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...Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...
Under a Massachusetts law, the Superintendent of Streets is empowered to call in police to remove any car that is in the way of a snow plow, Cunningham said...
Places in the World. Most of her victories were small ones: teaching a mongoloid boy (with a three-year-old's intelligence) to plow a straight furrow; coaxing a few words from a six-year-old who had never spoken; teaching a girl to sew a straight hem or weave a towel. But she also fought for places in the outside world for students she felt were ready, every year sent 15 or 20 out to earn their own way. During World War II she had the satisfaction of seeing a hundred of her "boys" accepted for service...
...island of Sardinia, black-capped, white-trousered unemployed farm laborers moved onto the rocky hills which had been untouched by the plow for generations. Near Cerveteri, along the rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
Near Cutro, a peasant paused behind his plow and explained how the system works: "This land belongs to the heirs of the noble Filippo Albani. They live far from Calabria. Cavaliere Francesco Cosentino rents land from them. He is a wealthy gentleman who sits in an armchair in Crotone. When we take off our hats to him, he seldom answers. We don't deal with Cosentino direct; he rents his land out to Francesco Corradi...